Weird Interface Moment
July 5th, 2005I just had a weird interface moment.
I use Backpack constantly as an outboard brain, and drag and drop lists were recently added. So I’ve sort of become used to them.
Now, here’s the weird part: I was just trying to type up a list of stuff, in a run-of-the mill text file (in my favorite text editor, gedit). And I had this urge to reorganize the list drag-and-drop style. Except, my word processor couldn’t do that . Kinda backwards, eh? Usually web interfaces are thought of as the relatively impoverished cousins of desktop apps…
Yes, friends and neighbors, the browser will eat the desktop, sooner or later.
on second thought…
I guess gedit sort of does have drag and drop: you can highlight a line and then drag and drop that. But it’s still not as simple as Backpack’s lists, because it’s really hard to grab or skip newlines just by highlighting–with an HTML list there are bullets.
I guess gedit sort of does have drag and drop: you can highlight a line and then drag and drop that. But it’s still not as simple as Backpack’s lists, because it’s really hard to grab or skip newlines just by highlighting–with an HTML list there are bullets.